[Fot] Our weekend at the Glen

Wed Sep 10 08:49:01 MDT 2008

Hey!

That's in my new back yard! 

If you need any help in the lobbying effort... let me know!

Greg

Greg Petrolati   Lafayette, Oregon       

That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...

From: quicktr4 at comcast.net
To: Billb at bnj.com; henry at henryfrye.com
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:50:31 -0700
CC: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] Our weekend at the Glen

bill the sovren columbia river clasic is labor day 
not memorial day i know you know that but lets clear it up. the new portland 
surface is realy nice and would make a greqt venue for next years kas 
cup.
jeff

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Bill Babcock 
  To: Henry Frye 
  Cc: fot at autox.team.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:55 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] Our weekend at the 
  Glen

I'm thinking it's time for the left coast. Maybe Thunderhill? 
  It's a hell of a track, though the surrounding facilities suck. Portland would 
  be great, the Columbia River Classic is the weekend before this SVRA race 
  (Memorial day weekend), and it's a high-track time event. Most folks are sick 
  of racing by the time the Monday races roll around. it also encompasses the 
  All British Field Meet which a lot of Triumph folks attend as well. 

  I know I could get SOVREN to roll out the red carpet for FOT since I 
  helped to give this race a boost a few years ago. The Saturday at-track party 
  is legenday, an opportunity to get out your vintage duds, and I can commit to 
  a pretty cool FOT party at Casa Babcock. 

  On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Henry Frye wrote:

    We came, we raced, we marked our territory with our racecars. Some 
    more
than others.

We hung out with TS 1 LO, parked under thI'm 
    thinking it's time for the left coast. e tent with the beer. What 
    were
they thinking. Anything could have happened. Nothing happened... 
    I
think.

We shared some special moments remembering uncle 
    jack.

Many of us were able to put faces with familiar names. Before I 
    just
knew the names. Now I have faces in my brain so I will forget all 
    your
names. Sorry, that's just how it works.

My car rose to the 
    occasion. First, somehow it became the poster child
for the event, 
    landing on the front page of the local daily newspaper on
Saturday. 

Then it drove into the paddock hemorrhaging oil from every orifice 
    after
the All Triumph Race, but I achieved a few lofty personal goals in 
    the
process. 

Then on the start of the Group 3 race my car pulled 
    me down the inside
line to pass a bunch of guys in turn one, then I 
    passed the start/finish
line in third overall a couple times. Running way 
    up there in a SVRA
feature race is something I never thought I would do. 
    Then the track got
a little slick from rain and I backed off a bit, I 
    will never be a brave
rain driver. Too much to lose, nothing to gain. 
    Still finished well, no
complaints there.

There was less attrition 
    than I expected over the course of the weekend,
at least until Sunday. It 
    was nice to spend time with our friends
sitting on chairs with a beer in 
    hand, not under cars requesting
wrenches and sockets. 

Many big 
    names in our sport were there, both past and present, and
getting face 
    time with them was a real treat. 

Congrats to Tony Garmey on winning 
    the Kastner Cup. This was the third
time I have seen the TR250K on track, 
    it was always fast. This weekend
it was amazing. During Kas' presentation 
    of the cup, he said he has not
seen the car go as fast since he ran it at 
    Sebring in '68. He then
issued a manufacturers recall notice, but I think 
    Tony is going to take
his chances!

Congrats to Larry Young for the 
    Bill Ames Award, well deserved. 

The Western PA Triumph gang was 
    there in force, as was a big contingent
of New England Triumph folks. Bob 
    Lang brought Khartu, his TR6
autocrosser for the folks to enjoy. Dave 
    Hutchinson drove his pristine
Italia. If I continue to try to mention all 
    the special cars that came
out to support the event I would miss several, 
    I don't want to do that.

Many thanks to Jack Woehrle and the rest of 
    SVRA for treating us Triumph
folks better than we deserved. Jack was 
    never too far from the Triumph
ghetto, and made sure we got what we 
    needed.

So, it was a great weekend, sorry if you missed it... Where 
    to next
year?
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